Alfred Lee Bulwinkle (April 21, 1883 – August 31, 1950) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
North Carolina.
Early life
Born in
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...
, Bulwinkle moved with his parents to
Dallas, North Carolina, in 1891.
He attended the common schools.
He studied law at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in
Dallas, North Carolina.
He served as prosecuting attorney for the municipal court of Gastonia 1913-1916.
He served as captain in Company B,
First Infantry, North Carolina National Guard from 1909 to 1917.
He served on the Mexican border in 1916 and 1917.
During the First World War served as a major in command of the Second Battalion, One Hundred and Thirteenth Field Artillery, Fifty-fifth Brigade, Thirtieth Division, American Expeditionary Forces.
Political career
Bulwinkle was elected as a
Democrat
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to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1929). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress, losing to
Charles A. Jonas.
Two years later, Bulwinkle defeated Jonas and was elected to the Seventy-second Congress. He served in nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1931, until his death. He served as chairman of the Committee on Memorials (Seventy-sixth Congress). In 1938, he was key to passing the
La Follette-Bulwinkle Act which sanctioned federal assistance to U.S. states establishing preventive healthcare for venereal diseases.
He served as delegate to the International Aviation Conference at
Chicago, Illinois, in 1944. In 1947, he was the United States adviser, International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal, Canada, and Geneva, Switzerland.
He died in
Gastonia, North Carolina, August 31, 1950, of
multiple myeloma
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.
[Death Brings End to Career of Representative Bulwinkle; The Gastonia Gazette; Page 1: September 1, 1950]
He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.
See also
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References
External links
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Memorial services held in the House of Representatives together with remarks presented in eulogy of Alfred Lee Bulwinkle, late a representative from North Carolina
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1883 births
1950 deaths
United States Army officers
Politicians from Charleston, South Carolina
People from Dallas, North Carolina
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
20th-century American politicians
Deaths from multiple myeloma